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CEMA
Former CEMA Board Chair Sharon Peterson of Apple Oil, West Haven and current Vice Chairman of the Board Peter Russell of Santa Fuel, Bridgeport testified last week before the Energy Committee against a bill that would mandate a biodiesel blend with home heating oil.
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CEMA
The Environment Committee has raised a bill (AN ACT ESTABLISHING A CARBON PRICE FOR FOSSIL FUELS SOLD IN CONNECTICUT) that would add a new tax on the fuel that CEMA members sell. The "price" that would be set has not been determined as of yet, but it is clear that gasoline, diesel, heating oil, propane and other fuels would be impacted.
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CEMA
CEMA recently met the with the Connecticut Lottery Corporation about a proposal that they plan to submit to the legislature that will allow lottery games to be purchased online. Lottery officials claim that online gaming will generate as much as $8 million in additional revenue to the general fund once the games are fully implemented and they have time to educate the public on how to access them from mobile devices and computers.
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CEMA
Special elections were held this week for three open seats in the CT General Assembly, and after all the dust had cleared, the incumbent parties retained the seats they had held. This left the balance of power unchanged, with Democrats and Republicans splitting the State Senate 18-18, and Democrats holding onto their edge in the State House 79-72.
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CEMA
We've gotten a number of questions recently about renewing CDL licenses with a Hazmat endorsement. There have been no recent changes, except for the ID requirement. But if you haven't renewed your license in several years, a recap of the requirements may be useful for you. First, here is the general information page from DMV.
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CEMA
AEC 2016 Year End Internet Marketing & Google PPC Recap For Connecticut: As noted in prior releases, central to all American Energy Coalition (AEC) Marketing Activities is the AEC website, and driving folks to the site for a more complete message is always the goal of any AEC marketing initiative.
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CEMA
AEC continues to maintain its presence on Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+) and State Oilheat Associations frequently re-tweet some AEC tweets. AEC has also begun to re-tweet some of association tweets.
CEMA
The AEC Pay Per Click Campaign begun in June 2014 continues to generate impressive results with State Oilheat Associations in Connecticut, Long Island, Massachusetts (intermittently), New York City, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island participating. Connecticut has participated continuously since June 2014 with a monthly budget of $1,000 per month.
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CEMA
The 2017 Eastern Energy Expo, May 21-25 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, has announced details of its full program and its keynote address. The keynote will be given by industry expert Tom Koza, founder of OPIS, and will focus on the energy policies of the first 120 days of the Trump administration, and their implications for our industry and energy prices.
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CEMA
The gas utility tariffs for March 2017 are in and we compare them to average retail heating oil prices. The rates below are expressed in heating oil gallon equivalents, and so present gas rates on a British thermal unit (Btu) to Btu equivalent basis with heating oil. These are the system expansion tariffs, which apply to all residential conversions from heating oil to utility gas.
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CEMA
This is our annual Angus Energy seminar which, in recent years, has teamed up with another presenter to bring added value to their own presentation. This year that presenter will be ServicEdge. The seminar will be on March 22, with registration at 8:30 a.m. and the seminar itself from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will be held at the CEMA offices, 10 Alcap Ride, Cromwell, CT, 06416.
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CEMA
"We dropped under 50 employees. Does FMLA still apply?"
Question: Our company recently made some changes, and we no longer have more than 50 employees. How do we handle our prior FMLA obligations (50 or more employees)? Do we have to wait a certain time period before we no longer are required to provide FMLA leave?
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CEMA
We welcome these new members who have joined CEMA in recent months.
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The Connecticut Mirror
In three special elections on Feb. 28, Connecticut voters did nothing to shift the balance of power in the evenly split Senate or closely divided House, despite furious efforts to make one race a referendum on President Trump and another on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
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American Energy Coalition
A Porter Ranch, California, physician says a pattern of health symptoms has emerged among the almost 50 patients he’s followed since last year's Aliso Canyon natural gas leak. Dr. Jeffrey Nordella said he's seeing abnormal pulmonary functions among some of those patients, and low red blood cell counts in others.
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Hartford Business Journal
New Haven-based Avangrid Inc. more than doubled its fourth-quarter profits, reflecting stable growth following the merger of Iberdrola USA and UIL Holdings Corp. the year before. In the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2016, net income for the newly formed utility rose to $207 million, or 67 cents a share, compared to $96 million, or 37 cents a share in the year-ago period.
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Hartford Business Journal
Eversource reported a 26 percent increase in profits for the fourth quarter of 2016, as the utility preps to bring more clean energy into New England in the years ahead. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2016, net income rose to $229.2 million, or 72 cents a share, compared with $181.8 million, or 57 cents a share, in the year-ago period.
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Maine Energy Facts
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The Connecticut Mirror
Eroding income tax receipts have pushed the current state budget back into the red, nonpartisan analysts reported. More importantly, the $65.2 million shortfall the Office of Fiscal Analysis reported also reflects a potential hole of about the same size in each year of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's new biennial budget proposal.
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